INTERNATIONAL: Cock Robin

The two great lords of British
journalism. Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere, cracked a joke,
last week, at all politicians concerned howsoever remotely with the now
defunct Anglo-French secret naval Pact (TIME, Aug. 13 et seq.).

The great lords' joke was a cartoon by "Low"' (famed David Low), which
appeared in The Evening Standard, a paper owned jointly by Beaverbrook
and Rothermere but controlled by the former. Cartoonist "Low" took as
his theme a new version of the old song "Who Killed Cock Robin?"
illustrating each verse as follows: